Clear Input onFocus with Google Custom Search

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Published on 2010-05-20T17:56:51Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 18:00 UTC
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I'm moving a sites search over to google custom search.

The old input for text looks like this:

<input type="text" value="Search this website..." name="s" id="searchbox" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search this website...') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search this website...';}" />

Now I need to Have the attr 'name' as 'q', like so:

<input type="text" value="Search this website..." name="q" id="searchbox" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search this website...') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search this website...';}" />

The odd thing is that when I swap the name over to q, I'm unable to clear the search box on focus. Am I missing something super easy?

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